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Chief Teneiya (d. 1853) was a leader in Yosemite Valley. His father was Ahwahnechee. [4] He led his band away from Yosemite to settle with Paiutes in eastern California. [11] Tenaya has descendants living today. The U.S. federal government evicted Yosemite Native people from the park in 1851, 1906, 1929, and 1969. [12]
When encountered by immigrants of European descent, the neighboring Southern Sierra Miwok tribe referred to the Yosemite Valley residents as "killers". [15] It is from this reference and a confusion over the word for "grizzly bear" that Bunnell named the valley Yosemite. The native residents called the valley awahni. Today, there is some debate ...
Humans may have lived in the Yosemite area as long as 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. [1] Habitation of the Yosemite Valley proper can be traced to about 3,000 years ago, when vegetation and game in the region was similar to that present today; the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada had acorns, deer, and salmon, while the eastern Sierra had pinyon nuts and obsidian. [2]
The jewel-like lakes of the High Sierra in Yosemite National Park are awe-inspiring sights. But for more than a hundred years they've also been biologically disrupted, stocked each year with non ...
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As the first Native American Interior Secretary, Deb Haaland gave tribes a louder voice and helped heal a troubled past. ... Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY NETWORK. December 20, 2024 at 4:05 PM ...
Indigenous people have often been erased from the country’s historical record — a survey from the National Congress of American Indians found that 87% of state history standards don’t ...
Barrett, S.A. and Gifford, E.W. Miwok Material Culture: Indian Life of the Yosemite Region. Yosemite Association, Yosemite National Park, California, 1933. ISBN 0-939666-12-X; Cook, Sherburne. The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1976. ISBN 0-520-03143-1.